New Friends

Chapter Nine

Tom's POV

I was gently shaking y/n's arms cause she didn't respond to my voice. A few times of shaking her, her eyes shoot open in shock as she looks extremely scared yet sad. "Hey, hey, hey, it's ok. Your fine, I am right here, nothing happened, your okay." I kept reassuring her as my hands let go of her arms. She tightened her body up inside her blanket and hid her face a little as she kept her eyes shut crying. I touched her knee feeling her shaking underneath my hand. She looked up at me. Her pure innocent looking eyes were looking straight into mine. "Darling, what happen? Was it a bad dream?" I asked her.

She stopped shaking now and sat up removing the blanket from her face while letting my hand go back on her knee since it slipped off from her moving. "Y-yes, I'm okay, I was just having a bad dream about something that made me really upset. I'm sorry!" She smiled slightly towards me and I smiled back. "No no, don't worry about it, what matters is that you're ok! So you're okay right?" I pleaded for a truthful answer. "Yes I'm okay, just a little shaken but it's nothing I haven't handled before!" She gave me a reassuring smile except I could see the pain in her eyes. I didn't want to come off as nosy but I was concerned. "Wait you've had to handle this before? What's it about may I ask?" My question lingered in the air for a moment.

"Uh, well what you read in the note I dropped the other day, the guy named Drew. Well he kinda is my ex and we had a messy break up. Something you might not understand, and is why I'm left with these occasional dreams I guess you could say." she left me a little speechless. I didn't know what to say to that. I had slipped my hand off her knee and folded my hands together. I have so many questions yet at the same time I don't know why I feel so many strong emotions towards her right now. "I may not understand, but I'll try! From what I've seen so far from the note and now the comment he left on your Instagram post the other day, he seems rough. Y/n please tell me what went wrong, it might help with the nightmares!" I shot the puppy dog eyes at her making it impossible to say no. "Ummmm ok, here it goes!" I said softly.

Your POV

Tom asked me to tell him about Drew and idk why. I've talked about it with Zara and Ella before but no one else. Especially not a guy. I feel safe with Tom though. I know he is safe because he is Tom Holland but that never mattered in the first place and it doesn't now. I started to think of everything that happened between me and this poor excuse for a man aka Drew. As soon as I started I couldn't stop.

"I dated him for almost a year. We fell in love quickly as stupid as it was and it ended quickly. He became more overly protective and I can't handle people being that way especially....  especially since my family is that way. Eventually he started to hover over me, I couldn't even have time to myself or with my friends. One day I snapped at him and practically shoved him out of my apartment. He got really angry and kicked the door in as soon as I closed it. He kept saying he was just protecting me. When he broke the door, he also hurt me leaving me on the ground for a little while, while he yelled at me. My back hurt and my head was spinning a bit but I managed. I got up and we started arguing even more. Eventually it turned into yelling, me trying to tell him why I needed him to leave me for good and him trying to convince me other wise. My head was pounding from the yelling and the blow of the door only to become worse. Our argument ended with me yelling for him to leave as my neighbors were now trying to see what was going on. He listened to me and left but only after he cursed, slapped me hard across the face, and shoved my body onto the floor with all his strength. Finally leaving me sobbing in pain on the floor while my neighbors Em and Owen rush in to pick me up onto the couch. Then the next day I got that note from him that you read along with another one that said I was right and that he couldn't do it anymore and that he was sorry. Now I have nightmares about it cause of how rough and brutal he was. I never knew someone could be like that until he was with me."

I can't believe Tom just sat there and listened to me rant. I hope I didn't scare him away! We were both facing each other sitting on my couch. He reached over and grabbed both my hands like he did earlier and looked straight into my eyes. "Love, I'm so sorry you had to go through that, but you don't have to be afraid of that happening ever again!" He smiled, then he slowly brought my hands closer to his face as he looked down and placed a soft little kiss on both hands at the same time. He then let go, got up, and started cleaning up everything not giving me a chance to answer him. After everything was all cleaned up which didn't take long at all, he walked to me now only inches away. "I have to leave cause you look exhausted so would you like me to help you to your bed?" He tilted his head a little. "Oh ok, yes please, and thank you for everything Tom!" I smiled big at him, he smiled back. " It wasn't any trouble at all!" With that he grabbed hold of my hands, walking backwards to my bed while he watched each step I took, getting closer to him. I sat down on my bed as he let go of my hands. We both smiled. "Good night y/n, I had a lovely time, see you later!" He started to walk out. I answered him quick. "Good night Tom, thanks again for everything!" He then walked out and closed the door while I layed back into my bed melting into my thoughts about what just happened.

A week went by and Tom came over three times more helping me do things around my apartment so that I could rest more to recover better. Each time we exchanged glances, gentle touches, smiles, laughs, and tight squeezes of each other's hands when I needed support to walk. We both didn't address anything that was happening and just kept on going. It really didn't bother me, we were both teasing each other in doing these things but both of us didn't mind. I was already getting better and stronger, though I still needed the support and help my friends and Tom were giving me.

Tom's POV

What y/n shared with me about Drew was a lot and I don't ever truly know that I considered how heart broken she was from him even though I myself, would personally like to go punch him and push him onto a concrete floor with all my strength and see how he likes it! Over this past week I got to be with her three times more. Each day was better than the last. Sometimes I would catch her writing in her journal or admiring a flower from outside. The more I was with her the more I saw her pure, beautiful heart that could only shine through her personality that was just beating with character. I was careful to be gentle with her and let her do her own thing when she needed to. But I kept catching myself watching her do her own thing and feeling like I couldn't stop smiling. Everything she does she makes it look so, delicately beautiful. She's one of the most strongest people I've ever met. No matter what happens or no matter how much pain she's in, she always tries to keep smiling, finding things she likes that make her happy. A few times she asked me to distract her from the pain she was in whether or not it was physical or emotional I'm not entirely sure. Which I did of course cause I knew that those times were the worst for her cause she always managed to find something good to focus on and it was the times she was in the most pain that she would ask me.

After spending a few days out of my week with her, my family was starting to wonder what was going between us. It was the second week already and I was headed over to her apartment with some food. Paddy was with me cause he wanted to meet y/n and because I was spending time with him. It was around 9 in the morning so I wasn't sure if she was awake or not, but I had a key she gave me to her apartment since I was coming over a lot to help her rest. Me and Paddy were unlocking the door when we both turned in confusion to each other cause we heard a piano being played with a girl, I think y/n singing! I opened the door and we snuck in, setting the food down on the kitchen table island. We started to walk towards y/n who was on the piano singing and playing it. She was slouched over since she couldn't sit up straight just yet. I was surprised by her. I didn't know she could sing so good! Paddy was impressed too, it looked like.

We both tried to silently take another step towards her but she heard us. She jumped a little as her fingers slammed awkwardly against the keys. "Aah! owww... Tom you scared me!" She turned her body towards us seeing Paddy with me, she looked surprised he was here. Then she smiled really big and her joy spread to me as I smiled back. I ran up to her, stopped a little, leaned down and picked her up underneath her arms on her waist, scooping her into my arms in a tight hug while spinning her a little. She laughed as I put her gently down on her feet. Paddy rolled his eyes and laughed with us. I had my one arm around her waist supporting her as she stood. She smiled at Paddy. "So is this the famous Paddy Holland I see standing in front of me right here?"